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Tonya Marshall - 29 Nov 2003 20:56 GMT

I've had the harrowing experience of having to format my hd and reinstall
everything. I have Office 97 and Word 2002 installed (partitioned hard
drive) and the ~$mytemplateinstartup.dot user files don't show up. I have
show all files selected, they are all checked in templates and add-ins. The
toolbars are there. I made a minor change to a toolbar and it asked me if I
wanted to save the changes to the template and instead of saving them it
brought up the template folder and I would have had to save it over the
template file.
Any suggestions?

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TF - 29 Nov 2003 23:58 GMT

I have no idea what ~$mytemplateinstartup.dot this file is. Files starting
with a tilde are usually temp system files and won't show up unless you have
told Windows to show hidden and system files.

If you are perchance referring to normal.dot (the global template), Word XP
does not have a normal.dot until you actually make a change to the default
settings that requires to be saved. Then normal.dot is created to save the
config change.

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Tonya Marshall - 30 Nov 2003 00:37 GMT

No, I'm not talking about Normal.dot. When either WD97 or WD2002 is open,
the Normal.dot user file is in the templates folder, ie, ~$Normal.dot.

I'm talking about the templates in the startup folders. Neither version of
word has the user files with the ~$ in front of them. Oddly enough, the
toolbars from the templates are available but I don't understand why the
userfiles aren't showing.
I have "Show file extensions" checked and also hidden files and system files
showing.
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> I have no idea what ~$mytemplateinstartup.dot this file is. Files starting
> with a tilde are usually temp system files and won't show up unless you have
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> template file.
> Any suggestions?

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Suzanne S. Barnhill - 30 Nov 2003 05:02 GMT

Are you saying that, although you have global templates or add-ins in Word's
Startup folder, and they are obviously being loaded, the associated user
files are not being created for them?

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> No, I'm not talking about Normal.dot. When either WD97 or WD2002 is open,
> the Normal.dot user file is in the templates folder, ie, ~$Normal.dot.
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> > template file.
> > Any suggestions?

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Tonya Marshall - 30 Nov 2003 17:37 GMT

Yes, that's what's happening. Hope this isn't a duplicate post. I answered
before but it doesn't show up.

> Are you saying that, although you have global templates or add-ins in Word's
> Startup folder, and they are obviously being loaded, the associated user
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> > > template file.
> > > Any suggestions?

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Tonya Marshall - 30 Nov 2003 18:05 GMT

Aha! I was going to Cut them from the folders they were in and re-copy them
from the CD I had stored them on. It asked me if I wanted to because it was
Read Only. Apparently when I made the CD read only, it made all the files
read only, too. Checked properties on the files and sure enough, read only
was checked. Unchecked all the read onlys, opened Word and there were my
user files.
*Whew*

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> Yes, that's what's happening. Hope this isn't a duplicate post. I answered
> before but it doesn't show up.
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> > > > template file.
> > > > Any suggestions?

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